ENGL 111W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Good Place, Works And Days, Iron Age

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A greek poem written around 700 bce. it is a sort of farmer"s almanac a poem of agricultural instruction and advice for leading the good life. Rural life is not really idealized here, in this forerunner of pastoral poetry; it is simply assumed to be the norm. He imagines a golden age as a time when men lived like gods, untroubled by work and woe. all they did was take pleasure in festivities. Justice for them is nothing but the fist, / and so one man destroys another man"s city a world where it is better to be doers of evil deeds and lawless violence, . But if justice lies in the fist, then shameless / is what they shall always be. Pastoral poems written between 42 and 37 bce, during a very turbulent time in roman history a time of civil war, the end of the roman republic, and the birth of the roman.

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